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  • adverb In a bracing manner

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bracing +‎ -ly

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  • His lyrics, while bracingly honest about the horrors of the sixties, were also drenched with a sharp, sardonic edge.

    Jonah Green: MOVIE REVIEW: 'Phil Ochs - There But For Fortune' Jonah Green 2011

  • His 2007 graphic novel, "Shortcomings," was a bracingly detailed — and fictional — relationship forensic that novelist Jonathan Lethem compared in look to the work of French filmmaker Erich Rohmer and in character complexity to the prose of Alice Munro.

    Negotiating the Union Bruce Bennett 2011

  • Typically, these overlooked films are penetrating, bracingly modern studies of human nature: So Close To Life, made just after Wild Strawberries, covers three expecting mothers in a Stockholm maternity ward, while Sawdust And Tinsel finds sexual undercurrents in a travelling circus troupe, and a father and son compete for the affections of a chorus girl in his third film, A Ship Bound For India.

    This week's new film events 2011

  • His lyrics, while bracingly honest about the horrors of the sixties, were also drenched with a sharp, sardonic edge.

    Jonah Green: MOVIE REVIEW: 'Phil Ochs - There But For Fortune' Jonah Green 2011

  • His lyrics, while bracingly honest about the horrors of the sixties, were also drenched with a sharp, sardonic edge.

    Jonah Green: MOVIE REVIEW: 'Phil Ochs - There But For Fortune' Jonah Green 2011

  • An audience-karaoke "I Could Have Danced All Night" would have sent everyone off with cheesy cheer, but Fleming and Höll returned for a bracingly beautiful performance of Strauss's "Morgen."

    To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • Clouzot's legacy is undeniable—a master storyteller, he was also bracingly unafraid to expose the shadows within us.

    A French Director Ripe for Rediscovery Kristin M. Jones 2011

  • The American public has had a lot on its plate lately, what with Egypt, severe winter weather, and the Super Bowl all happening at the same time, but Frank Rich's bracingly unsparing February 6 column acknowledges the stakes:

    Ethan Casey: What Does Egypt Mean for Pakistan? Ethan Casey 2011

  • An audience-karaoke "I Could Have Danced All Night" would have sent everyone off with cheesy cheer, but Fleming and Höll returned for a bracingly beautiful performance of Strauss's "Morgen."

    Archive 2009-04-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • His lyrics, while bracingly honest about the horrors of the sixties, were also drenched with a sharp, sardonic edge.

    Jonah Green: MOVIE REVIEW: 'Phil Ochs - There But For Fortune' Jonah Green 2011

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